This paper provides new empirical evidence on the impact of parental health shocks on investments in children …, more precise, health indicators. Results show that co-living children of ill mothers, but not of ill fathers, are … shocks are likely to raise the employment probability of children due to the need to cover higher health expenditures. …

preference – under the pretext of showing interest for children – for looking forward to adulthood. This was characteristic for … politicians are ready to continue investments that «merely» favour children? Since 1980s a new sociology of childhood has been … critical to these forward-looking perspectives and insisted that children’s welfare is significant enough in itself as an …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in … India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa who are poorer, on average, a paradox which is often called the Asian … disease and stunt children's growth. I apply three complementary empirical strategies to Demographic and Health Survey data to …

There is a need to understand the practicality, validity and reliability of using utility measures with children and …

The study examines the extent of children’s rights to medical information, considered a condition of self …-determination. The author would like to study the implementation-level of this right as applied by children, to research attitudes of … applied on three different target categories: health professionals, parents and children. Accessing medical information is …

relationship between three measures of health- and education-related human capital of children and the distribution of resources …